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  2. Accusative case - Wikipedia

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    In the sentence The man sees the dog, the dog is the direct object of the verb "to see". In English, which has mostly lost grammatical cases, the definite article and noun – "the dog" – remain the same noun form without number agreement in the noun either as subject or object, though an artifact of it is in the verb and has number agreement, which changes to "sees".

  3. Grammatical case - Wikipedia

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    Trigger: One noun in a sentence is the topic or focus. This noun is in the trigger case, and information elsewhere in the sentence (for example a verb affix in Tagalog) specifies the role of the trigger. The trigger may be identified as the agent, patient, etc.

  4. English prepositions - Wikipedia

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    The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CGEL) says of complex prepositions, In the first place, there is a good deal of inconsistency in the traditional account, as reflected in the practice of dictionaries, as to which combinations are analysed as complex prepositions and which as sequences of adverb + preposition.

  5. Applet - Wikipedia

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    The word applet was first used in 1990 in PC Magazine. [2] However, the concept of an applet, or more broadly a small interpreted program downloaded and executed by the user, dates at least to RFC 5 (1969) by Jeff Rulifson, which described the Decode-Encode Language, which was designed to allow remote use of the oN-Line System over ARPANET, by downloading small programs to enhance the ...

  6. Sentence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In traditional grammar , it is typically defined as a string of words that expresses a complete thought, or as a unit consisting of a subject and predicate .

  7. English coordinators - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the sentence "She likes apples and oranges", the coordinator and connects two elements (apples and oranges) of equal importance. In contrast, in the sentence "She knew that he was lying", the subordinator that marks the clause "he was lying" as subordinate to the main clause "She knew".

  8. Java Speech API - Wikipedia

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    Grammar design: Defines the words that may be spoken by a user and the patterns in which they may be spoken. Signal processing: Analyzes the spectrum (i.e., the frequency) characteristics of the incoming audio. Phoneme recognition: Compares the spectrum patterns to the patterns of the phonemes of the language being recognized.

  9. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    The sentence can be read as "Reginam occidere nolite, timere bonum est, si omnes consentiunt, ego non. Contradico. " ("don't kill the Queen, it is good to be afraid, even if all agree I do not. I object."), or the opposite meaning " Reginam occidere nolite timere, bonum est; si omnes consentiunt ego non contradico.